WorldNetDaily continues to have an unhappy and mendacious obsession with the Clintons — it can’t stop pushing false claims about a “Clinton body count.” Chelsea Clinton is one target of WND’s obsession; a couple years back it smeared her for supporting childhood vaccines. Joe Kovacs tried another smear in a Feb. 6 article:
“Wow.”
That is DOGE leader Elon Musk’s reaction to the discovery that Chelsea Clinton, daughter of former President Bill Clinton and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, has allegedly received some $84 million in U.S. taxpayer funding.
“USAID gave Chelsea Clinton tens of millions of dollars and partnered with their sex trafficking organization The Clinton Foundation,” wrote author and journalist Liz Crokin on X.
“In 2010, then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helped oversee $4.4 billion that Congress had earmarked for ‘recovery’ efforts in Haiti by the USAID in 2010.”
“So USAID was funding organizations sex trafficking kids and lining the pockets of their family members all while the USAID also funded media organizations to cover up that they were sex trafficking kids AKA Pizzagate and all with YOUR hard earned taxpayer money!”
Crokin continued: “The level of corruption and criminality – including crimes that are deemed capital offenses with death penalty as a potential punishment – are astounding and unprecedented.
“We must demand accountability and justice for these crimes.”
Kovacs even rehashed his earlier attack on her for supporting vaccines. His first big mistake, of course, is to take Liz Crokin’s word on anything — she’s a big promoter of conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and the death of Seth Rich.
Kovacs’ second big mistake was to not fact-check anything Crokin claimed. As actual fact-checkers found, her claim is false — the money was given to the Clinton Foundation, not to Chelsea personally. Further, the amount was only $7.5 million, not $84 million, and the money went to the Clinton Health Access Initiative, not the foundation. (One of the fact-checkers even called out WND.) Further, Chelsea receives no pay from the foundation.
The story started to fall apart soon after it was published; Kovacs had to add an editor’s note that “On Feb. 6, 2025, this reaction post on X by Elon Musk was apparently deleted by Musk.” He followed up with a Feb. 11 article in which he complained that fact-checkers and even Clinton herself pointed out that the story was a lie:
Chelsea Clinton is firing back against what she calls “lies” and “absurd claims” that she was gifted $84 million from USAID, the United States Agency for International Development.
“Lies and conspiracies about my family and me are nothing new. Still, I am particularly troubled by the absurd claims that continue to pervade social media this week, fact checks be damned,” the daughter of former President Bill Clinton and twice-failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, wrote Monday on X.
“Facts: I’m proud of the Clinton Foundation work that has helped tens of millions of people worldwide. Our impact speaks for itself. I don’t take a cent from the Foundation. Never have. In fact, my family personally contributes meaningfully to our work each year.
“Misinformation isn’t just noise – it’s a weapon. Efforts to undermine good work won’t stop us, and we stand in solidarity with those who are committed to truth, public health, progress, and the endless potential of our future.”
WND reported last week how Elon Musk, the head of DOGE, the Department of Governmental Efficiency, posted and then deleted a “Wow” reaction to claims Chelsea allegedly received some $84 million in U.S. taxpayer funding.
[…]The left-leaning so-called fact-checker Snopes.com indicated the claim Chelsea herself had received the money directly was false.
“A graph that social media users claimed showed Chelsea Clinton received $84 million from USAID is actually a reference to the Clinton Foundation,” it wrote.
“Further, government data from fiscal years 2008-24 showed that USAID had not given more than $7.5 million to that foundation. Finally, tax returns show Chelsea Clinton does not receive any compensation for her work at the foundation.”
Kovacs went on to copy-and-paste quotes from mostly anonymous Clinton-haters. What he wouldn’t do, however, is admit his original article is a lie, let alone correct or retract it.
Refusing to correct or retract an article they admit is false is not a good look for Kovacs or WND.